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Re: [Asrg] Trust relationships etc.

2005-07-21 18:36:54

gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:

This is another laugh... has anybody ever seen a legitimate, dangerous virus (the kind that antivirus software might catch, I mean) contained in a PLAIN ASCII TEXT E-mail?

I haven't seen one in a while, but back in the late 90s there were a few viruses that came as uuencoded files in a plain text e-mail. Some examples are the Happy 99, Zacker (aka Maldal) and My Party viruses. You really cannot make any assumptions that only mime or html emails are potentially unsafe.

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James Lick -- 黎建溥 -- jlick(_at_)jameslick(_dot_)com -- http://jameslick.com/

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